Keith's Notes

So many Pops fans are unfamiliar with what I do when not on the podium with the Pops. For the last nine years, I have been Music Director of the Utah Symphony, an orchestra with a wonderful tradition, truly one of this country's great orchestras. We released a recording last spring that I am very proud of, and that I think you will enjoy. "Symphonic Dances" brings together the dances from Bernstein's "West Side Story," the gorgeous, amazingly romantic "Symphonic Dances" of Sergei Rachmaninoff, and a new work by the Peruvian-American composer Gabriela Frank called "Latin-American Dances." They are delightful, fiery, and very listenable works by a young composer whom I think everyone will be talking about soon.

Selections: Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

1. Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
Gabriela Lena Frank
Three Latin American Dances

2. Introduction: Jungle Jaunt

3. Highland Harawi

4. The Mestizo Waltz
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Symphonic Dances, op. 45

5. Non allegro

6. Andante con moto (tempo di valse)

7. Lento assai